CVE-2015-7855

CVE-2015-7855 affects ntpd in NTP 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4 and 4.3.x before 4.3.77. The decodenetnum() function can assert-botch when processing mode 6 or mode 7 packets with an unusually long data value, enabling a remote attacker to cause ntpd to crash (denial of service). Public references indicat...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2009-343-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-867-1)

Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered a logic error in ntpd. A remote attacker could send a crafted NTP mode 7 packet with a spoofed IP address of an affected server and cause a denial of service via CPU and disk resource consumption. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...